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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 31 (Andreas Haefliger)
At the end of the development section of the Allegro vivace of Op 31 No 1, Beethoven presents a wonderful...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022
BEETHOVEN Complete Music for Piano and Cello (Robert deMaine)
Cellists must be eternally grateful to Beethoven for his role in transforming their instrument from supporting player to fully fledged...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios, Op 1 Nos 1 & 2 (Rautio Piano Trio)
‘That bass line was meant to sound gruff! These semiquavers scatter effortlessly in the upper register.’ Pianist Jan Rautio offers...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW22
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Op 10 (Daniel Tong)
Pianist Daniel Tong first came to my attention in 2013 through his sensitive and cultured coupling of Schubert’s A major...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 30-32 (Anne Queffélec)
Anne Queffélec is an artist whom I’ve loved in Scarlatti, Bach and Ravel, but Beethoven? This is new territory, certainly...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2023
Beethoven Chamber and Vocal Works
Ann Mackay | English Piano Trio
The Scottish Office certainly knew what it was about at the turn of the nineteenth century. George Thomson, then Secretary...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1994
Beethoven Cello Sonatas, Vol. 2
Daniel Spiegelberg | Dimitry Markevitch
After weaving his way on record through much off-beat material, the young Swedish pianist, Roland Pontinen, now turns his hand...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1996
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
If you like your Beethoven hot-blooded and unrestrained this could be for you. But unless your hankering for those qualities...
Reviewed in issue 6/1989
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 14, 17 and 23
Previously heard largely in off-beat repertoire for Collins and Hyperion, Artur Pizarro now re-emerges on Linn Records with performances of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2003
Beethoven String Quartets, Vol.2
These are eminently well-played accounts, distinguished by good intonation and tonal blend. I implied that the New Budapest Quartet's earlier...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1990
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